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Remembering your thread: Door2Challenge January 9, 2018
Just who do you think you are?Today's challenge is to remember who you are. What traits defined you at age 5, 7 or 10 continue in you today? What did you love that you still love? What fascinates...
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Time, that elusive vixen:Door2Challenge for January 10, perhaps to be...
I let go today's challenge until the day way over nearly everywhere, The good part about playing fast and loose is you can do this challenge tomorrow, next week, three tiems in one day-- just remember...
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Thrifty Thursday: Door2Challenge January 11,2018
Thursday's challenge invites you to don the identity of a revolutionary. We're going to spend some time today thinking about how our consumption isn't such a great deal. It's a complicated subject:...
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Living imperfectly
I was doing the laundry this evening, and took out a favorite blue linen dress. A gift from a sister, I've had it for years. It's well made, sturdy but soft, comfortable and can cross into formality...
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The January Challenge Begins!
January Tiny Resolutions Thirty Day Challenge is back 💖Time to walk through that gateHappy new decade! That last one wasn't such an easy one for many of us.Every day is a chance to start again-- but...
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January Second Challenge: Tiny Resolutions
You made it through the first day of the new decade! Congratulations. Hope you had time for some reflection on the past year(s) and began crafting out some personal goals for growth and happiness for...
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January Third Challenge: Be a Big Container
This is a repeat of a post from 2010, and a line many of my clients have heard. It seems especially apt today, this third day of a new year. Wednesday the trending topics on social media were all...
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January 4th Challenge: Cook with love and mindfulness
There's few things in the world more primal than eating. We do it mindlessly every day.But feeding ourselves or others is an act of wonder. We take matter and transform into into our own flesh.We can...
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January 5th Challenge: Learn something new
It's Sunday, and you have a little more time, but this can still be a Tiny Challenge.Curiosity and awe are states linked to happiness and well-being. Today, take as long as you like to learn or...
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January 6th Challenge: Mellow Out Monday
Learn anything new Sunday? I learned a bit of Portuguese, a t shirt folding technique, and that the Oulu neutron counts are currently very high (no worries unless you are an astronaut in outer space)....
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January 7th Challenge: What Would Dolly Do?
From the Pass It On campaignHope you had some intentional mellowing of your Monday. I did some mandala coloring with a client (her good idea) and read up on some good recipes. I also came home to a...
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January 8th Challenge: Wabi Sabi Wednesday
natural cycle of growth and decayToday's Tiny Resolution is to intentionally look for imperfections and find the beauty within them. This is know as working with wabi-sabi. From the web: Wabi-sabi...
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January 9th Challenge: Thankful Thursday
What are you thankful for today?There's good research to show that an attitude of gratitude will increase your sense of well-being and optimism, and boy howdy we can use that these days.Some of the...
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January 10th challenge: State Change
I want to be authentic with myself and with you, and frankly, I’m cranky and tired tonight. You almost got a blog called “Furious Friday.” Anger is a legitimate response to injustice and I saw and...
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January 11th Challenge: Stationary Saturday
Nope, it’s not about being a couch potato. Today’s challenge is to write a letter to someone you love or admire. Not a text and not an email— a real letter on paper, written by hand and not computer....
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January 12th Challenge: Refrain From Complaints
Let's try for a complaint free Sunday.I can't speak to other parts of the world, but Americans sure like to bitch. I'm Olympic Class, myself. I can generate 12 in my head before my mouth opens. And...
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January 13th Challenge: Get Hygge with it
Hope some of you had good experiences with Complaint Free Sunday. I woke way earlier than I wanted and began my morning with a litany before I remembered my commitment. Used the bracelet technique...
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January 14th Challenge: Mind Your Manners
The last few years have taken their toll on common courtesy. A nasty sort of partisanship has entered our politics, and name-calling and the type of abhorrent views one knew existed but thought rare...
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January 15: Challenge: Do something you've been putting off
Today's hump day, so let's get over it by picking a pesky procrastination and OWNING its anxious butt.Far to literally true in my case-- I'm having that colonoscopy I've put off a few years.Yours need...
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January Challenge Thursday: Find or make or listen to a poem
Did you get 'er done yesterday? I did. I completed my uncomfortable, long delayed colonoscopy. And I decided to see it as a metaphor made literal: an opportunity to let go of old shit. Pardon my...
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Friday January 17th Challenge: Read 12 Truths from Anne Lamott
Lonnnnnnggggg week here, which is clearly an excuse for 1) why this is so late and 2) how lazy it is. But my old pal Jill reminded me of this good post by national treasure Anne Lamott today, and I...
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January 18th Challenge: Look for something beautiful
It's easy to be seduced by the flashy, polished and commercialized. Today's challenge is to notice little bits of beautiful wherever you can. The lilt of a voice, the musical notation in the...
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January 19th Challenge: The sound of silence
When is the last time you had a quiet day?Among the many environmental losses of the last half century has been that of silence. Human-made noise now invades the wilderness and oceans, drowning out...
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January 20th Challenge: Honor the Legacy of Dr. King
Today we honor the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, with a challenge to stand up against injustice with love and strength.In Virginia, tens of thousands of "Patriots" are gathering to their right to...
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Mental Health and Present Suffering
It’s mental health awareness month. Like every therapist I know, my practice is overly full and I am constantly having to tell people looking for help that I can’t help them. It feels terrible.There...
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